The Great Conspiracy"The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History" is a memoir work by a general in the Union Army, John Alexander Logan. In his book Logan sought to demonstrate that secession and the Civil War were the result of a long-contemplated "conspiracy" to which various Southern politicians had been party since the Nullification Crisis. |
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... liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them; thus paying of former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of our people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of ...
... liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them; thus paying of former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of our people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of ...
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... liberty, property, and the religion which they professed"— and, as "the right of property in man" had really been admitted in practice, if not in theory, by the framers of that Constitution itself— that institution was allowed to remain ...
... liberty, property, and the religion which they professed"— and, as "the right of property in man" had really been admitted in practice, if not in theory, by the framers of that Constitution itself— that institution was allowed to remain ...
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... liberty and the union of the country were inseparably united; that as the destruction of the latter would most certainly involve the former, so its maintenance will with equal certainty preserve it;" and he closed with an impressive ...
... liberty and the union of the country were inseparably united; that as the destruction of the latter would most certainly involve the former, so its maintenance will with equal certainty preserve it;" and he closed with an impressive ...
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... liberty—by the glorious achievements of our fathers in defending them—by their noble blood poured forth like water in maintaining them—by their lives in suffering, and their death in honor and in glory;—our countrymen! we must resist ...
... liberty—by the glorious achievements of our fathers in defending them—by their noble blood poured forth like water in maintaining them—by their lives in suffering, and their death in honor and in glory;—our countrymen! we must resist ...
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... liberty, encompassed by her enemies, that there will not be found, in the wide limits of the State, one recreant son who will not fly to the rescue, and be ready to lay down his life in her defense." In support of the contemplated ...
... liberty, encompassed by her enemies, that there will not be found, in the wide limits of the State, one recreant son who will not fly to the rescue, and be ready to lay down his life in her defense." In support of the contemplated ...
Contents
The Rejected Olive Branch | |
Slaverys Setting and Freedoms Dawn | |
Freedom Proclaimed to | |
Historical Review | |
Lincolns Troubles and Temptations | |
The Armed Negro | |
Freedoms Sun Still Rising | |
Thirteenth Amendment in the Senate | |
Treason in the Northern Camps | |
The Fire in the Rear | |
The Wardrum On to Washington | |
The Causes of Secession | |
Copperheadism vs Union Democracy | |
The Storm of Battle | |
The Colored Contraband | |
Freedoms Early Dawn | |
Compensated Gradual Emancipation | |
Borderstate Opposition | |
Thirteenth Amendment Defeated in the House | |
Slavery Doomed at the Polls | |
Freedom at Last Assured | |
Lincolns Second Inauguration | |
Collapse of the Armed Conspiracy | |
Assassination | |
What Next? | |
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